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New Zealand pumped an average of just 31,000 barrels of crude oil a day in 2017, according to data from the US Energy Information Agency (EIA), a fraction of the 913,000 barrels produced daily in the North Sea. The country’s annual oil production makes up just 1.4% of the country’s economy. The industry is already in decline after a downturn in the global market from 2014 took a heavy toll on its earnings. Crude oil production declined in 2016 to the lowest level in a decade, and spending on production… Read more

Royal Dutch Shell is to buy BG Group in one of the largest energy company acquisitions seen in a decade. The deal is worth £47 billion ($77 billion), representing a 50% premium on BG’s share price as of 7 April 2015, and the combined entity will be the largest company in the FTSE 100. Shell is a vertically-integrated company, whose operations range from exploration and production of oil and natural gas, refining, petrochemical production, and marketing of fuels and other products. BG Group is more focused on upstream activities. In… Read more

BP is expected to announce job cuts on the UK North Sea Oil rigs that it operates, despite having completed development of new wells only in December last year in the Kinnoull reservoir. The company controls the most important infrastructure in the North Sea oil fields and coupled with the recent downsizing of other operators in the area, such as Shell and Chevron, this move does not bode well for the future of North Sea oil and more broadly tight oil sources in general. BP recently completed a major development… Read more